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Monday, January 5, 2015

Takato's Kouchi (the failed attempts)

Whereas Takato's failed side takedowns and failed utsuri-goshi attacks don't really come close to scoring, this is not the case with his failed kouchi-gari attacks. Many of these failed attacks actually come close to scoring.

Even when his kouchi-gari attacks fail, a lot of the the time he manages to knock his opponents down (although they land on their front).

Takato is so good at this technique that even when he fails, it looks good. Watch the clip below and marvel at his mastery of kouchi-gari.